The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015)

Re:The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) by philwelch on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:33PM (#19557190)

> “Violet” is a type of purple or purple–blue flower. People use the color term “violet” to mean a hue between blue and purple, without specific reference to the spectrum. People get confused about this because Newton stuck the label violet on a diagram of a color wheel one time.

If violet is between blue and purple, and indigo is between blue and violet, what are we doing here?

But yeah, color is a weirdly cultural-specific thing. For instance, "orange" used to just be considered a shade of red. (Not sure whether it's an urban legend or not, but supposedly the term "orange" to refer to a color originates from the Dutch royal house of Orange.)

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Re:The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) by kian on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:22PM (#19557688)

I'd heard previously that the fruit used to be called "a naranj", and through linguistic evolution that transformed into 'an aranj', and a light bit of google for 'a naranj' returns the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word).

>> The word ultimately derives from a Dravidian language — possibly Tamil நாரம் nāram or Telugu నారింజ nāriṃja or Malayalam നാരങ്ങ nāraŋŋa — via Sanskrit नारङ्ग nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree". From there the word entered Persian نارنگ nārang and then Arabic نارنج nāranj.[2] The initial n was lost through rebracketing in Italian and French, though some varieties of Arabic lost the n earlier.[2]

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